What is a Legitimate Advantage Gambling Method?
Gambling scams get under my skin because they make it very hard for mathematicians like me to tout legitimate advantage gambling methods. People have been made skeptical, and indeed they should be. But this means you’re often lumped in with the scammers if you study anything unconventional. Take craps. The game is perfect for betting schemes, since there are so many bets available to play against. But all craps bets having a losing edge for the player, so it’s a plain fact that NO combination of bets is going to make you a winner! Yet, I claim that craps is a beatable game, and even sell analysis software for proving if you can get an edge or not (www.smartcraps.com). It took years to convince me (thanks to Frank Scoblete and others), that dice control is for real, and can in fact influence the outcomes enough, in the hands of a very skilled shooter, to yield a positive player edge. As a scientist, I eventually decided it was worth studying, and developed statistical models to test the
